Dystopian Author Quotes

Michel Houellebecq Active people don’t change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Michel Houellebecq Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

Michel Houellebecq A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state – that’s never a possibility in my books. For me, everything’s irreversible […]

Michel Houellebecq Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Michel Houellebecq If life is an illusion it’s a pretty painful one.

Michel Houellebecq I’d say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God’s existence in Dostoevsky.

Michel Houellebecq Why am I popular? I don’t know. Is it a mistake? I should think it’s a mistake somewhere.

Michel Houellebecq It’s a curious idea to reproduce when you don’t even like life.

Michel Houellebecq To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which […]